A portrait of the life of a nineteenth-century feminist and literary figure traces the fortunes of the beautiful Louise Colet, the model for Madame Bovary, through her career as salon hostess, novelist, and political journalist. 30,000 first printing.

Rage and fire: a life of Louise Colet - pioneer feminist, literary star, Flaubert's muse

GRAY, Francine Du Plessix

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton

Francine du Plessix Gray's biography of the Marquis de Sade, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "boldly imaginative retelling" of his life and garnered the critically acclaimed author a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of an equally complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with anorexia. But her tremendous intellectual legacy foresaw many of the twentieth century's great changes and continues to influence philosophy today. Simone Weil traces this seminal thinker's transformation from privileged Parisian student to union organizer, activist, and philosopher as well as the complex evolution of her ideas on Christianity, politics, and sexuality. In this thoughtful and compelling biography, du Plessix Gray illuminates an enigmatic figure and early feminist whose passion and pathos will fascinate a wide audience of readers.

Simone Weil (Lives)

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

October Blood

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

Shares the current concerns of Russian women, describes their role in Russian society, and looks at how their discontent has helped lead to the massive changes sweeping the nation

Soviet Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope

History

Russia

Anchor

Hawaii: the sugar-coated fortress

Random House Adult Trade Group

Vintage Books

First edition. Daughter of publisher of a high-fashion magazine copes with her mother, a not-so-great acting career, high fashion and its devotees, and other family matters. Stain on bottom edge near spine. 253, 3 pages. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Simon&Schuster

A collection of the author's most important nonfiction work, includes major pieces on Klaus Barbie, the infamous Nazi Commandant of Lyon; a nonfiction novella on Hawaii; and writings on contemporary American religious movements, women writers and doers

Adam and Eve and the City: Selected Nonfiction

History & Criticism

Essays & Correspondence

Holiday House

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